Importance of Halal

is nourished from *ar\m will not enter paradise. The fire of Hell is
more worthy of it.’
A#mad
It has been reported from the Prophet of All\h r that he said, ‘On the
day of judgement a group of people will be brought forth, they will
have with them good deeds as high as Mount Tih\mah, but when they
will come before All\h their good deeds will become dust and they will
be thrown in to the fire of Hell.’
The Prophet r was asked why this will happen. He r replied ‘they use
to pray %al\h, fast, give Zak\h, and perform *ajj but, (their state was
such that) if anything *ar\m was presented to them they would take it
(without any hesitation). For this reason All\h declared all their deeds
void and null.’
al-Kab\’ir
A servant of Ab[ Bakr t would give his master some of his food daily.
Once he brought some food which Ab[ Bakr ate a morsel from. The
servant asked ‘Usually you ask me where I acquired the food from,
today you have not.’
Ab[ Bakr t replied ‘I was so hungry I forgot to ask, tell me where you
got it from?’
The slave told him that during the time of ignorance (before accepting
Isl\m) he once passed by a tribe where he practiced fortune telling for
them and they promised to pay him at a future date (i.e. The food he
had brought was given as a payment for his fortune-telling).
Ab[ Bakr t screamed, ‘You have destroyed me!’ and thereafter he put
his fingers down his throat and tried to vomit the morsel out. As it was
just one morsel, he could not vomit it out. A passer-by told him to drink
water as this would help him to vomit, so Ab[ Bakr t asked for water
to be brought, he kept on drinking until he could vomit out the morsel
of food.
A friend of his commented, ‘you put your self through a great deal of
trouble for one morsel.’
Ab[ Bakr t replied, ‘If I had to die trying to get this morsel out I would
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